Wichita eagle., 1887-10-06
ANOTHER SCHOOL RUILpiNG.
The School board LooKing After the school
Room Problem a Result Of the Fast
Increase of Pupils

an acre of land on the corner OF Franci
and Market st Gets and the board to erect
brick school building.
After looking the ground over the boart
conclude that it was good site for build
ing and also was needed in that vicinity. TIT
offer was accepted and work will be com
| merced on building in the near future.
This fall an al" of the building will b
erected 1t will cost near 81, coo and will, it i
thought, give room for ali living in thai
vicinity. At present the south part Of tn.
city has not sufficient school room and the
fact brought about the action for a new
building. 1t is intended to follow the same
bnilding and will complete the building next
year, costing when completed near sl2, coo.
The board will advertise for bids immedi
ately and rush the work until the part to be
used this winter is completed 1t is hoped
to have it rendy for use by the middle Of
December.
| Returning from the south part'of the city
the card took look at the northeast par
of the city with the view of finding
more school room The people of that vi
| cinity had some time ego offered to furLi-h
building for school purposes if the board
would furnish Teachers. The proposition
was accepted, and yesterday the building
was examined by the board, and in few
| DAYS teac hers will be assigned to duty in
| that building.
While the city is making such rapid in
crease in population one Of the leading ques-
lions for the solution of the school board of
Wichita is to provide room for s. udents.
From this source alone, probat ly, the board
bears the major share of the
complaint arising from the pub
lie schools The city superintendent
is made every day to labor under disadVan-
tages growing out of this 'lack Of room"
pI oblem. The efficient corps Of teachers in
many cases are compelled to report ROT M so
scarce that it is impossible to accommodate
all AS a result of the state Ct affairs, it is
alleged, and few question, that the re ult of
the Iabors Of teachers are not as favors BILE as
they would be under more encouraging cir
cumstances.
IL is estimated that theFsection most pro
life of complaint is the part of the city east
Of the railroads. Many students are com
PEELED to go some distance for school
advantages from that 81 ctlon. In addition
to the distance and the Inconvenience at
tending it, it is argued that the danger of
crossir & the railroads is not TO be overlooked.
Some parents haze very much to be COMPEL
ed to send their children "cross the rail
roads, claiming that such route is not
safe.
In talking with a member Of the board
concerning the matter he said that it was
more and more dawnilg on ''school fathers"
that some provision must in the rear future |
be made for further accommodating |
in the east part Of the city |
The demand thus seemed to be sufficient |
to &C mmaDd attention and in fact On answer |
highly satisfactory to the people would have
been given some time ago if such en- expen-
diture out of the chool moneys as possible
The "silver and gold" on hand called for |
making expenditures.
1t is also generally supposed by those con-
versant with the subject that to this asst side
school building question is a bit of facts not
known. Once on a time the
school board considered the matter of erect
,osed to trade some lots belonging to the city
coated east of the tracks for building site
suitably located in the vicinity of Second
street, Douglas and Hydraulic avenues. The
BOARD was unable to get any offer that had
my marks, as considered, of a good trade
70 buy a site for a building promised an
outlay almost equal TO the cost of the build
ng itself The board seemed to think hat
heir efforts should be better received and
he people thought that they paid school
axes and should be given average accommo-
lations for their children. While the two
IDEAS predominated the GARD quietly turned
Is eyes off that locality temporarily
The action Of the beard yesterday in
eterminipg to erect brick building one
nd threefourth miles south Of Douglas
venue, on Morket street, was the subj, CT Of
riticism yesterday to parties hvir on the
asst side. 1t was alleged that the need of a
uilding in their section is by far more
rgent than in the souh part of the city. c
IN the contrary, the beard seems to think {
be demand fer building south is urgent I
nough for the erection of a coed school
uilding where one solid square acre of 7
round is pushed forward as an inducement s
II it. One member of the hoard claimed
esterday that if lots suitable for scho-l-
ouse buildir & could have been secured some {
lonths ago on the east side, free, good
liljing would have resulted long ere this o